Product Details
ISBN-10
1-58322-632-x
ISBN-13
978-1-58322-632-2
Publication Date
Jul 2004
Nb of pages
256
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Ariel Dorfman
Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean citizen. A supporter of Salvador Allende, he was forced into exile and has lived in the United States for many years. Besides poetry, essays and novels Hard Rain (Readers Intíl. 1990); Widows (Pantheon, 1983); The Last Song of Manuel Sendero (Viking, 1987); Mascara (Viking, 1988); Konfidenz (FS&G, 1995)óhis plays include Death and the Maiden, which has been produced in over one hundred countries and made into a film by Roman Polanski. Dorfman has won many international awards, including the Sudamericana Award, the Laurence Olivier and two from the Kennedy Center, where Speak Truth to Power, his last play, recently premiered. He is distinguished professor at Duke University and lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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Mascara
A Novel
Ariel Dorfman
2004 Edition
“Taut, eerie . . . a postmodern version of Jekyll and Hyde.” —New York Times Book Review
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Other Septembers, Many Americas
Selected Provocations, 1980–2004
Ariel Dorfman
2004 Edition
“Beware the plague of victimhood, America. . . . Nothing is more dangerous than a giant who is afraid.”
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Manifesto for Another World
Voices from Beyond the Dark
Ariel Dorfman
2004 Edition
In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries.
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The Nanny and the Iceberg
Ariel Dorfman
2003 Edition
Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy.
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Exorcising Terror
The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet
Ariel Dorfman
2002 Edition
On October 16th, 1998, the world awoke to amazing news: General Augusto Pinochet, Chile's former dictator, had been arrested by Scotland Yard in England on charges of torture and genocide. Here is renowned author Ariel Dorfman's story of his trial.
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Widows
Ariel Dorfman
2002 Edition
"The plot resounds with the moral thunder of classic…. The reader, deeply touched, moves as if in a dream of outrage among its tombs of love."
—Alan Cheuse in The New York Times Book Review
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Blake's Therapy
Ariel Dorfman
2001 Edition
In Blake's Therapy, the author holds a magnifying glass to one man's privileged life, and, as his mental stability unravels, we come to understand the complexities of our society.
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La muerte y la doncella
Ariel Dorfman
2001 Edition
La Muerte y la Doncella, la obra de teatro latinoamericana más representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clásico sobre la justicia y el perdón, la memoria y el olvido.
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Rumbo al sur, deseando el norte:
Un romance en dos lenguas
Ariel Dorfman
2001 Edition
Ariel Dorfman conoce bien el destierro. Antes de cumplir trece años, el había huído junto con su familia—judíos que se fueron forzosamente de Europa del Este—de Argentina a los Estados Unidos, y más tarde a Chile.
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Terapia
Una Novela
Ariel Dorfman
2000 Edition
Esta nueva novela de Ariel Dorfman es una intriga psicológica donde vemos que la estabilidad mental de un hombre privilegiado se va deshaciendo.
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